Friday, May 26, 2017

Trump just saved us millions and billions!

Trump tweeted this morning:

Just arrived in Italy for the G7. Trip has been very successful. We made and saved the USA many billions of dollars and millions of jobs.

What this means is anyone's guess. Bitching out NATO allies to pay more does not translate directly into jobs and money. Or maybe he's talking about the Saudi arms deal, which will result in more jobs and $$ for military contractors? (Senate hold-the-phone hearings on the sale notwithstanding.)

After making the arms sale, Trump met the pope and tweeted:

Honor of a lifetime to meet His Holiness Pope Francis. I leave the Vatican more determined than ever to pursue PEACE in our world.

I guess this is some type of "peace through selling arms to the people whose nationals blew up the Twin Towers" initiative.

But, whatever! It's great news if you're brain doesn't care about facts and details! And now that peace is breaking out, we under-employed folks will be waiting with bated breath for the job offers to pour in and taxes to go down due to the millions and billions the president has saved us. I'm gonna get the dishwasher fixed!

Trump also posted a new Rasmussen poll that shows his approval ratings at 48 percent.

The fact that Trump is bragging about fewer than half of the American people approving of the job he's doing struck Philip Bump in the WaPo as weird , too.

But it's not that weird given where his ratings have been. See? Read this stuff long enough and it all starts to make sense!

Now I gotta go bake a bundt cake to make our Memorial Day picnic great again! Have a great weekend!

24 comments:

I was watching a John Oliver episode called Stupid Watergate on the insane Trump news for just the last week ... the Russians in the oval office, firing of Comey, Comey's memo, Trump's leak of classified into to the Russians and telling them Comey was a nut job, the appointment of a special prosecutor, Jared being a person of interest in the investigation, etc. And so much more has happened just since that episode was made!

Have you ever noticed that wherever he went he was "honored." He was "honored" to do a sword dance and lay hands on the Orb in Saudi Arabia. He was "honored" to go to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. He was "honored" to meet the pope. It's like that at home, too; he is constantly saying how "honored" he is. Now, I know "honored" is often used as a synonym for "the pleasure was all mine" when someone is being thanked for something. But no one was thanking him. I am afraid he thinks that all the things done for him -- mostly by people who want something from him -- are shows of great respect for his august person. Just once I would like to hear him say he was "happy" or "grateful" or (fat chance!) "humbled" to be somewhere.

He has rings on his fingers and bells on his toes and a pathetic need to be honored wherever he goes.

Jean, Engly the bundt cake. I am allowed bratwurst now on only four days a year, but Monday is one of them.(The others are the 4th of July, Labor Day and Christmas.) After a certain age, you have to defy the dieticians when you can because there are too many times when you can't.

Don't know about CWL, but the NYTimes had a long obit that did not stint on cataloging his views and his sins. His anti-Soviet views were widely shared then and many thought his proposal to arm the mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight the Russians was top-notch, but acts have consequences and we're still living with them as are the Afgans! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/zbigniew-brzezinski-dead-national-security-adviser-to-carter.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

Definitely a man of his times. But what times are we entering now? A time of no coherent strategy? Is the US going from empire to irrelevant status? Merkel just seemed to say that Europe had best find their way independently of the US after spending more than enough time with our clown president.

I consider the election of Trump to be the equivalent of a decapitation of the country, or, perhaps more appropriately, a severe stroke affecting the cognitive regions. We are well on our way to becoming a backwater on the world map, no longer to be taken so seriously.

I actually don't think it is bad for the US to step back from being the world's policeman. But I don't think Trump is going about it in the right way; and I don't even know if he really has a plan or if that is actually his intention. He wants to beef up military spending, and short change the State Department. Based on what I have seen so far I don't think he has a clue how to carry out foreign policy.

Lots of crazy tweeting in the last 24 hours. Hard to reconcile Trump's accusations about Fake News with his overriding concerns about leakers in his admin. If the news is fake and made up by reporters, then there are no leakers.